Deploy and Host Openfront Sportsbook with Railway

Openfront Sportsbook is a self-hostable sportsbook development and operator application. Customer screens cover sports, events, markets, betslips, accounts, wallets, and wager history. Operators manage trading, risk, grading, settlement, finance, responsible gaming, compliance, and provider workflows. Sandbox use is not authorization to accept real-money wagers.

About Hosting Openfront Sportsbook

This template provisions the application from its GitHub repository, PostgreSQL, and a private native Railway Bucket named Storage. The database starts empty; no demo records or reusable credentials are included. Initialize the application using the repository's onboarding instructions after deployment.

DATABASE_URL references Postgres and the five S3_* variables reference the Storage bucket. Generated per deployment: SESSION_SECRET.

The app gets a Railway-generated public domain. No custom domains are included.

Admin Dashboard

Manage platform through dedicated dashboard workspaces and permission-controlled data screens.

Storefront

Public routes include /sports/[sport]/[competition], /events/[event], /betslip, promotions, and account pages for bets, wallet, limits, disputes, and responsible play.

Sports Catalog & Wagering

Manage sports, competitions, events, markets, selections, prices, quotes, betslips, wagers, and immutable wager terms.

Trading, Risk & Settlement

Operate trading and exposure workspaces, record results and grading, settle and resettle wagers, and manage journal entries, holds, reconciliation, and recovery.

Safer Play & Provider Operations

Manage identity and location evidence, player limits, self-exclusion, approvals, incidents, support, provider inbox/outbox, retries, and dead letters. Production use requires licences, approved providers, legal review, and jurisdiction-specific controls.

Common Use Cases

Sports Catalog & Wagering
Trading, Risk & Settlement
Safer Play & Provider Operations

Dependencies for Openfront Sportsbook Hosting

The app needs a PostgreSQL database and S3-compatible object storage. Both are provisioned by this template.

Deployment Dependencies

Implementation Details

Next.js and Keystone 6 with a GraphQL API, Prisma, and PostgreSQL. Payments, email, and other external providers need their own operator configuration; this template does not activate them.

Why Deploy Openfront Sportsbook on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying Openfront Sportsbook on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.